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As I read chapter one of “Frankenstein” I learn of Victor’s past as he begins to tell his life story. He describes how his father met his mother, who have a significant age gap, which isn’t as shocking as discovering that his mother intends on having Victor marry Elizabeth, the girl whom they “adopt” from a family in poverty that took her in after Elizabeth’s parents died. She then becomes Victor’s “more than sister”, and his mother is completely fixed on having them two marry. After reading I go to find chapter analysis videos to help me further understand the book. And from my research, I found the reason behind this book being considered “romantic”, the book is not referred to as romantic in the modern sense, but as “romantic” would be considered in the 18th century. Romanticism is a movement that was in the 18th century that evoked strong emotion and rebellion, something I can see this book has a lot of. This book seems to continuously fight the idea of rebelling against morality...

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings." WHAT THE HECK DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?! was the first thing that came to my head when I read the sentence of the 200 year old frightening, romantic, science-fiction "Frankenstein". As I continued reading, the story line became much clearer. The story starts with a series of letters from Robert Walton to his sister in England. He begins to tell her about his plans on going an arctic discovery, and if all goes well she might not see her brother for many months, possibly years. He continues to write to his sister, talking about his lack of friends and how he feels above the rest of his crew to actually befriend any of them. By his 3rd letter to his sister, its a rushed check in to his sister, with an increase in confidence in his expedition. He is going forward with it and sees no way in which it can fail. Once we reach the last le...